First things first. There are (officially) no wedding bells, wedding plans or even an engagement announcement from Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. The couple have been making headlines for the past year for their very public, globe-hopping romance, but despite the persistent rumors, as far as anyone knows they are still just dating.
That didn’t stop a caller on Travis and his brother Jason Kelce’s New Heights podcast this week from trying to Trojan Horse some news out of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis by asking the siblings how they feel about fall weddings. The caller, William, said he and his girlfriend talked about getting married in the fall, but he unequivocally told her “good luck with that, I’m gonna be at a football game.”
“Ridiculous,” Jason laughed. “Sounds like this marriage is gonna work out great!”
Travis — who has gotten used to all manner of back door efforts to get him to talk about the couple’s relationship — countered with a very diplomatic answer. “I actually don’t know people who’ve gotten married in the fall,” he said on Wednesday’s (Jan. 8) episode. “My friends always do it in the summer.” Jason noted that “we can’t go usually,” when it comes to nuptials that take place as the NFL season is heating up as the leaves fall.
Travis agreed, counseling the couple to find a weekend when their preferred team is not playing a good team. “Also, if you really do have a problem with that, maybe it’s in her best interest to not have it in the fall so that she knows you’re invested in the anniversary every time it comes around,” he said diplomatically.
He added that the brothers really have no say on the matter, adding that he’s seen weddings in “f–kin’ February… [and] everywhere but the fall. So I’m not sure if the fall is a good wedding season.” Married father of four — with another on the way — Jason also noted that William can record the game because, “there are certain things that are more important than football and if the wedding is not more important than football, we got some bigger issues here.”
“Don’t make my friends have to not go,” Travis said about autumn wedding planning. “Don’t make my friends choose whether or not they’ll have to sell their tickets that week.” In his finest advice, retired Eagles Super Bowl winner Jason said that there are many things more important than football, and “not arguing with your wife is high up there.”
There was, of course, plenty of actual football talk as well, with the brothers setting up this weekend’s first round of NFL playoff games and answering another burning, intimate, “not dumb” question from a caller about their equipment. A woman who rang noted that after watching football with her family she had a query only the siblings could answer: “what happened to the jockstrap?”
“I don’t think you boys wear ’em anymore,” she said as Travis and Jason looked, well, dumb-founded. “You just see everything hangin’ and movin’ and runnin’ and, oh my goodness, oh my goodness!”
“Not as aware as this woman about what’s going on with the genitals throughout the game,” Travis said. “But watch the game for whatever you watch the game for. I’m not here to judge.” Three-time Super Bowl champ Travis will have some time to ponder that some more this weekend thanks to the first-round bye the Chiefs have because of their top seeding in the AFC. Their first game in a bid to be the first NFL team to win three Super Bowls in a row will take place on either January 18 or 19.
Check out the Kelce’s answer about fall weddings below.
Actor and former Big Bang member T.O.P has opened up about his recent role in the second season of Netflix’s Squid Game.
On January 15, T.O.P spoke to South Korean media for the first time in years to discuss his recent return to the public eye as Thanos in season two of Squid Game. The 37-year-old rapper and actor was previously absent from the public eye due to previous backlash over his 2017 conviction for marijuana use.
In an article published by The Korea Times, T.O.P shared that “the offer to play Thanos was a daunting proposition” for him. In Squid Game, Thanos is a rapper who joins the games after falling victim to a cryptocurrency scam. The character is also portrayed as a drug user, which contributes to his eccentric behaviour.
“The character mirrored my past, reflecting aspects I’d rather keep hidden,” he said. “The fear of being pigeonholed into one role made me hesitate. But destiny seemed to be pulling me in this direction.”
“For almost 10 years, I felt no one looked at me, but director Hwang Dong-hyuk reached out to me first,” T.O.P revealed. “The trust [and] the belief he had in me gave me the courage to take this on. As an actor, it is my duty to repay the trust. Excelling in my performance is another assignment in my life.”
The musician and actor also reflected on his thirties so far, calling it a “lost time” where he lived largely isolated from society. “I just kept working on music in the dark,” he shared, adding that “music was the only place where I could breathe”.
In early-2017, during his military service, T.O.P came under investigation and later tested positive for marijuana after the Seoul Metropolitan Police was informed of his use of the drug. In the ensuing trial, the rapper admitted to using the drug at his home in October 2016, prior to his enlistment.
T.O.P later received a 10-month jail sentence with a two-year suspension. In 2022, he and fellow Big Bang members G-Dragon, Taeyang and Daesung released the single ‘Still Life’. The rapper later announced his withdrawal from the group in 2023.